The Journey Nears Its End January 1999 to Present Hancock Michigan Carmen jumps out of the car. I turn to follow her when a large, black pantherlike animal, with its head raised and its back straight, deliberately crosses the snow ...
This is the powerful story of a poet's experience in a country on the verge of war, and a journey toward social conscience in a perilous time.
This is the powerful story of a poet's experience in a country on the verge of war, and a journey toward social conscience in a perilous time.
The highway expanded into a horizon, yellow gray, and the skyscrapers solidified in the distance, pulling me out of the tunnel I had been in since I had left twelve days ago, to meet this man I had known only through letters on a ...
One of those meetings included an unforgettable tennis doubles match in which Lowell's anticoordination was such that no leg or arm seemed related to any of the others but the owner of all four was sufficiently irrepressible to carry on ...
A memoir of an Austrian Jewish refugee, Paul Hoffman, who landed in Shanghai in 1938 and lived there for 13 years, making the most of the last years of the foreign-dominated world of old Shanghai.
As a young Peace Corps volunteer, working with leprosy patients in rural South Korea in 1980, Paul Courtright got caught in the middle of a brutal military suppression in Gwangju.
A stand-up comedian who was brought up as a Jehovah's Witness describes how her childhood was haunted by perpetual doomsday prophecies about an imminent apocalypse in which her non-believing neighbors and schoolmates were doomed.
Mainly using untapped oral histories of Italian Jews and Catholics, this book shows that Catholics in Italy who saved Jews firmly believed they were doing so in consonance with the Pope's wishes, Readers will get to know these courageous ...
When the German Army captured Lwow in 1941, Poland's third-largest city contained a vibrant Jewish community of 160,000 people. Because the Final Solution began there so early, no other Jewish...
They also provide new insights into military events—such as Hitler’s initial feeling that the 6th Army should pull out of Stalingrad. Shortly before he died, Misch wrote a new introduction for this English-language edition.